Wednesday,
November 13, 2019
Cocktails
6:30 PM
Dinner and Dancing
8:00 PM
Gala Go-Chairs
Jacqueline L. Bradley
Kathryn C. Chenault
Carol Sutton Lewis
Dr. Amelia Ogunlesi
Black Tie
Presenting the Fourteenth Annual Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize
The River Pavilion,
Javits Center
429 11th Avenue,
New York, NY 10001
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Registration for the event has now closed, however you can still make a contribution in support of The Studio Museum in Harlem’s 2019 Gala.
Please help us build on the event's momentum with an additional donation that will enable the Museum to nurture the next generation of artists of African descent and inspire our audience of diverse visitors. In the coming years, the Museum will continue to embed its exhibitions and education and community programs in the gathering places and green spaces of Harlem through our initiative inHarlem. Your gift will allow the Museum to deepen its connections to and work within the Harlem community.
Thank you for your support. For assistance, email gala@studiomuseum.org.
Honoring Leonard A. Lauder
Leonard A. Lauder is Chairman Emeritus and the senior member of the Board of Directors of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., one of the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of prestige skin care, makeup, fragrance and hair care products. He is also an active philanthropist and is deeply involved in the worlds of art, education and politics.
Mr. Lauder currently serves as the Chairman Emeritus of the Whitney Museum of American Art, where he was a trustee from 1977 to 2011. He has been one of the museum’s most significant benefactors, giving a milestone gift of $131 million in 2008 to the museum’s endowment, and helping the museum acquire 948 works of art, 760 of which he gifted personally.
Mr. Lauder is also a long-time supporter of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2013, Mr. Lauder pledged his 78-piece collection of Cubist art to the museum and has since added five major works to that promised gift. In concert with his Cubist collection donation, he helped establish the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art, which supports a robust program of fellowships, focused exhibitions and public lectures, and is the first such center dedicated exclusively to modern art within an encyclopedic museum.
Mr. Lauder is the Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation and the Honorary Chairman of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. He is also a major supporter of the University of Pennsylvania, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Aspen Institute and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Among Mr. Lauder’s honors are the Légion d’Honneur, the “Lone Sailor” Award given by the United States Navy Supply Corps Foundation, and the Palazzo Strozzi Renaissance Man of the Year Award. He was also named a 2014 Living Landmark by the New York Landmarks Conservancy and received the esteemed 2011 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy as a member of the Lauder family in recognition of the family’s long-standing commitment to philanthropy and public service.
Mr. Lauder was married to Evelyn H. Lauder, Founder of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation from 1959 until she passed away in 2011. They had two sons together and five grandchildren. In 2015, Mr. Lauder married Judy Glickman Lauder, a philanthropist and internationally recognized photographer whose work is represented in more than 300 public and private collections. Mr. Lauder and Ms. Glickman Lauder received Gordon Parks Foundation Patron of the Arts Award in 2016.

The Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize
The Studio Museum in Harlem is honored to announce the fourteenth presentation of The Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize at Gala 2019. The Prize recognizes the achievements of an artist who demonstrates great innovation, promise, and creativity, and includes a monetary award of $50,000. Established by jazz impresario, musician and philanthropist George Wein in memory of his wife, Joyce Alexander Wein, an esteemed trustee of the Studio Museum for many years, the Prize honors the legacy of a woman whose life embodied a commitment to the power and possibilities of art, artists, and culture.
Winner: Torkwase Dyson
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Torkwase Dyson received a BA from Tougaloo College in 1996, a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1999, and MFA from Yale School of Art in painting/printmaking in 2003.
Though she works in multiple forms, Dyson describes herself as a painter whose compositions address the continuity of movement, climate change, infrastructure, and architecture. For Dyson these subjects in relationship to each other inform abstractions that explore the history and future of Black spatial liberation and environmental racism.
Dyson's solo exhibitions and installations include Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, New York; Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago; Bennington College VAPA Usdan Gallery, Vermont; Cooper Union, New York; Colby College Museum of Art, Franconia Sculpture Park, Maine; Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia; Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, and Davidson Contemporary, New York. Group exhibitions include Between the Waters, Whitney Museum of American Art; Plumb Line: Charles White and the Contemporary, California African American Museum; Look for Me All Around You, 2019 Sharjah Biennial; PopRally: Practice and Ritual, Museum of Modern Art.
Torkwase Dyson has been awarded the The Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant, Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists, The Lunder Institute of American Art Fellowship, Spelman College Art Fellowship, Brooklyn Arts Council grant, Yale University Barry Cohen Scholarship, the Yale University Paul Harper Residency at the Vermont Studio Center, Culture Push Fellowship for Utopian Practices, FSP/Jerome Fellowship and Yaddo.
Dyson’s work has also been supported by the Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, The Laundromat Project, the Green Festival of New York, Obsidian Arts and Public funds of the City of Minneapolis, Mural Arts Program of Philadelphia, The Kitchen, and Dorchester Projects in Chicago.
Torkwase Dyson lives and works in New York and is a critic at the Yale School of Art.

Board of Trustees
Raymond J. McGuire, Chairman
Carol Sutton Lewis, Vice-Chair
Rodney M. Miller Sr., Treasurer
Jacqueline L. Bradley, Secretary
Laura Day Baker
Dr. Anita Blanchard
Kathryn C. Chenault
Joan S. Davidson
Gordon J. Davis, Esq.
Damien R. Dwin
Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Sandra Grymes
Arthur J. Humphrey Jr.
George L. Knox
Nancy L. Lane
Dr. Michael L. Lomax
Bernard I. Lumpkin
Dr. Amelia Ogunlesi
Holly Peterson
Ann G. Tenenbaum
Reginald Van Lee
Lise Wilks
Ex-Officio
Hon. Bill de Blasio, Mayor of the City of New York
Roxanne John, Mayoral Designee
Hon. Tom Finkelpearl, Commissioner of the Department of Cultural Affairs
Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator
Gala 2019 Supporters
FOUNDERS' CIRCLE
Frank and Laura Day Baker
Jacqueline L. Bradley and Clarence Otis
Kathryn C. and Kenneth I. Chenault
Mitzi and Warren Eisenberg
FS Investments and Damien Dwin
Global Infrastructure Partners
Gucci
Susan and John B. Hess
Holly Peterson Foundation
Holly Phillips MD and Jose Tavarez/
Bank of America Private
Carol Sutton Lewis and William M. Lewis, Jr.
LoveLuckFaith
Nancy and Howard Marks
Rodney M. Miller, Sr.
News Corp/Toni and Dwight Bush
Amelia and Bayo Ogunlesi
Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation Inc.
Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley
Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.
Lise and Jeffrey Wilks
TABLES
Supporters
BET Networks
Patricia Blanchet/ Peggy Cooper Davis
and Gordon J. Davis/Venable LLP
Frank Cooper, III
Joan S. Davidson
Gladstone Gallery
Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs Private Wealth Management
GCM Grosvenor
Agnes Gund
Hauser & Wirth
Suzanne McFayden
Crystal McCrary and Raymond J. McGuire
RBC Capital Markets
Sciame Construction, LLC
Troy Taylor
Marva Smalls/Viacom
WarnerMedia/HBO
Elaine Wynn
Donors
Atlantic Records
Bloomberg Philanthropies
David Zwirner Gallery
Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz
Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group
Jenkins Johnson Gallery
Miyoung Lee and Neil Simpkins/
Stephanie and Tim Ingrassia
Nyssa and Chris Lee
Bernard I. Lumpkin and Carmine D. Boccuzzi
Marcus Mitchell and Courtney Lee-Mitchell
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
National Basketball Players Association
Pace Gallery
Van Cleef & Arpels
White Cube
TICKETS
Patrons
Dawoud Bey
Galerie Lelong & Co.
Celeste B. Hart, M.D.
Barbara Bluhm-Kaul Foundation
Brooke Garber Neidich
Partners
Peg Alston
Angela Vallot & Jim Basker
Tamara and Gregory Belinfanti
Terri and Alvin Bowles
Darby English
Waldo and Rita Falkener
Stephen Friedman
Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn
Samuel L. Guillory
Joyce and Ira Haupt, II
Tom Healy and Fred Hochberg
Alexis Johnson
Noel Kirnon
Raymond Learsy
Luhring Augustine
Marian Goodman Gallery
Mitchell-Innes and Nash Gallery
Jack O'Kelley III
Paula Cooper Gallery
Reginald Van Lee
Begum Yasar
Donors
Abigail Ross Goodman
Derrick Adams
Adjaye Associates
Alexander Gray Associates LLC
Arlene Bascom
Charles Boyd
Michèle and Joseph Brazil
Isolde Brielmaier
Judith Byrd
Pippa Cohen
Cooper Robertson
Dawn L. Davis
Susan Fales-Hill
John H. Friedman and Jane Furse
Gavin Brown's enterprise
Tamsen Greene
Philip Shneidman
Barbara Hoffman
Arthur J. Humphrey, Jr
Samuel Levi Jones
Peter Kunhardt
Nancy L. Lane
Andrea J. London
Marianne Boesky Gallery
Margaret S. Morton
Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe
Thao Nguyen
Nnamdi Okike
Nora Orallo
Marc Payot
Luis Penalver and Elizabeth Davis
The Phillips Murray Foundation
Kim Powell
The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation
Jamel Shabazz
Marsha E. Simms
Storm King Art Center
Stout Thomas & Johnson
Timothy Tompkins
Pauline Willis
Neda Young
Zubatkin Owner Representation
CONTRIBUTORS
Shelley and Phillip Aarons
Jody and John Arnhold
Jimmy Arnold
Michele and Timothy Barakett
Susan and Jonathan Bram
Emily F. Braun
Ursula Burns
Lester Coney/Mesirow Capital
Saundra and Don Cornwell
Randi Cutler and Joel Cutler
Craig J. Goldberg
Allen and Deborah Grubman
Hallie S. Hobson
Patricia Redd Johnson
Tina Kim
Gail and George Knox
Dorothy Lichtenstein
Susan and Glenn Lowry
Madison Square Park Conservancy
Marie-Josée & Henry Kravis Foundation
Charles and Karen Phillips
Jonelle Procope and Fred Terrell
Lynda & Stewart Resnick
Andrea Rosen
Scott Rothkopf
Emily Russell
Cindy Sherman
Deirde Stanley and Shawn Massiah
Jerome L. Stern Family Foundation
Tracey T. Travis
Verizon
George Wein